- Gail Williams
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name = Gail Williams
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other_names = Gail Ann Williams
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website = http://www.well.com/~gail/Gail Ann Williams (born in
Berkeley, California ) has been the director of The WELL since 1998. She graduated from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in the 1970s and got involved in political theater as both a creative and management member of the Plutonium Players troupe. She was a principal in their long-touring satirical show spoofinganti-feminist politics, "Ladies Against Women", throughout the years of theRonald Reagan presidency.In December 1991, she joined the management team of the prototypic
online community , The WELL, in the role of community manager. In 1998 she took the post of Executive Director. When The WELL was acquired bySalon.com in 1999, Williams stayed on. Currently she serves as Salon's Director of Communities, overseeing The WELL and Salon's Table Talk community.She is a member of the
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences . In 2000 Williams was named as one of theTop 25 Women of the Web . [cite news|author=Mayfield, Kendra|title=Women Geeks Honor Their Own|work=Wired News|publisher= CondéNet|date=January 2 ,2000 orFebruary 1 ,2000 |url=http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/02/33895|accessdate=2007-11-08]Notes
External links
* [http://www.gailwilliams.com/ Gail Ann Williams] official website.
* [http://www.girlgeeks.org/innergeek/inspiringwomen/williams.shtml Women Who Inspire Us: Gail Ann Williams]* [http://www.windsorfeministtheatre.ca/ladiesAgainstWomen.html Handbill from "Ladies Against Women" Canadian Tour]
* [http://www.utne.com/issues/2002_si/cover_story/10138-1.html Blasts from the Past: 40 Overlooked Masters Who Still Stir Our Souls] Utne Reader.
* [http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/archives/27-Interview-with-Gail-Ann-Williams,-Salon.com.html Online Community Report interview]
* [http://docs.rinet.ru/ITricks/tig17.htm#I14 Profiled in "Tricks of the Internet Gurus"]
* [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,18992,00.html Salon Buys The WELL] Wired Magazine.
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